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Houston Chronicle
Sheriff's deputies arrested 40 people in a major bust of an alleged Texas cockfighting ring they say was run by a major cocaine distributor in the area. The bust was made during a raid shortly before noon Jan. 23 on a home south of Midland, according to the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
There, officers recovered 30 live roosters, several dead birds, 46 ounces of cocaine, guns and about $32,000. Also found were rooster cages, as well as sharpened razor blades, or "gaffs," that are tied to roosters' feet to make their fights more brutal.
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KTVT-TV
Officials in Mexico put "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch on a plane Thursday morning, and he is now back in North Texas to face charges. The teenager arrived at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Aeroméxico flight #2682, just before 11 a.m. Deputies with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office met Ethan and U.S. Marshals at the airport. He was briefly processed through customs and immigration and then taken directly to the Lynn W. Ross Juvenile Detention Center, in Tarrant County. Sheriff Dee Anderson said Ethan's return marks the end almost two months of very hard work.
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The Associated Press via The Tampa Tribune
A sheriff in Central Texas wants more done earlier to help inmates with possible mental health issues after a man's death last year while in custody. Brazos County Sheriff Chris Kirk said his office will work more closely with court officials to make help available when an inmate's mental health is in question. He said staff will contact a justice of the peace in writing when county jailers suspect inmates might harm themselves. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards and prosecutors will review Texas Ranger and sheriff's department reports on the death of Melvin Earl Jones.
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Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
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USA Today
The surge of criminal background checks required of new gun purchasers has been so unrelenting in recent months that the FBI had been forced to temporarily halt the processing of thousands of appeals from prospective buyers whose firearm purchase attempts have been denied. Since October, the bureau's entire cadre of appeal examiners — about 70 analysts — was redeployed to help keep pace with waves of incoming background investigations that continued through December when a record 3.3 million firearm sales were processed.
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KTBC-TV
New 3-D crime mapping technology puts jurors at the scene of the crime. Investigators with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office just got their hands on the system. Williamson County Lt. Craig Gripentrog walks us through a mock crime scene. It is a man who appears to have been struck over the head with a metal pole during a drug deal gone bad.
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McClatchyDC
Before issuing thousands of permits each year for North Carolinians to buy handguns, sheriffs in Mecklenburg, Union and some other counties across the state have gone through an oft-futile exercise. Relying on statutory language allowing them to ensure each gun owner is of "good moral character," they have submitted applicants' names to large health care facilities seeking to learn whether anyone was suicidal or otherwise mentally unfit to own a pistol.
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The Dallas Morning News
The 911 calls from downtown Dallas began piling up toward the end of 2015. Some would come in as "unconscious person"; others, "welfare check." Some were generic: "medical emergency" or "other." A few even came in as a suicide. But rather quickly, Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics realized they were all related to one thing: the smoking of K2.
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KABB-TV
Several South Texas law enforcement agencies are reaching out to women with another recruitment event.
The San Antonio Police Department, Texas Parks and Wildlife and the San Antonio Chapter of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will participate in the upcoming "Women in Law Enforcement" seminar.
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Officer.com
Usually when we write about relationships it is about strengthening them, increasing resilience, and finding balance between a cop's work and time off. We describe how and why to put effort into family and friendship to form lasting ties. This article is a little different; today we're going to focus on letting go, knowing when to cut your losses and walk away.
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PoliceOne.com
Showing respect is one of the most powerful tools we can use in our effort to establish a rapport and obtain cooperation from victims, witnesses and suspects during investigative interviews and interrogations.
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